Therefore I approached the sofa with reluctance, and stood uncertain in front of it.
I left them, sunk with sighs of satisfaction, on thesofa in the hall, their black toques and gloves on a chair beside them, gazing at the view through the open front door while I went to see how the potatoes were getting on.
Also I threw the cushions on the floor before flinging myself on the sofa in the hall; and presently Mrs. Barnes came and tidied them.
The picture on thesofa was the same: perfect peace.
I sat on the wall and smoked three cigarettes, and the peace on the sofa remained complete.
Then I fetched some cigarettes, not moving this time quite so carefully, and going out again sat on the low terrace-wall at a point from which I could see straight on to the sofa and notice any movement that might take place.
Sleep on the sofa in his room, and don't be afraid to close your eyes--as soon as he is asleep.
You'll dine with us, Lestrade, and then you are welcome to the sofa until it is time for us to start.
Georgie has gone to drive with Berry, and I am sorry to say that Gertrude is on the sofa with a headache.
There were several tables loaded with books, between two windows there was a large crucifix, on the sofa a guitar was lying.
Bruehl threw the medal on the floor; Henniche stooped and picked it up from under the sofa where it had rolled.
The Baroness von Lowendhal, a very lively though not very young person, and always the best informed about everything, sprang from the sofa and greeted the Count as he entered.
He was obliged to content himself with a small sofa and a chair instead of a bed.
I have thought it over beforehand,' began Guarini seating his guest on the sofa and taking a chair beside him.
You can spend the night here on the sofa or in an armchair, I will lock myself in the bedroom.
The two ladies were sitting on the sofaand chatting with vivacity.
Sulkowski rose from the sofa and went to the drawing-room; Bruehl followed him, smiling notwithstanding the emotions he had just experienced.
As soon as the last had gone, Abbuzzi also disappeared, and Faustina lay on the sofa not seeming to notice an elderly gentleman standing quietly apart.
Just as she became thoughtful over the ring, the door opened quietly and someone looked through it cautiously: the young lady turned her head, saw who it was, and rose from the sofa with an exclamation.
The minister put the case behind the sofa and returned to the King.
Esther, takes George from his chair, after first untying his feet, and then helps Olive to remove the dishes to the kitchen, where she washes them, and then goes to the sofa in the parlor to take a nap.
She, however, got up when her sister did, and lay down on thesofa in the parlor.
After dinner, the author lay down upon the parlor sofato take a nap, as is his custom in the afternoon.
On arriving at the cottage she hung up her hat and joined Olive in the parlor, took little George on her lap, and, after singing him to sleep, lay down on the sofa and took a nap.
Dorian Gray, starting up from thesofa and turning almost white from fear.
He sent him to bed, and threw himself down on the sofa in the library, and began to think over some of the things that Lord Henry had said to him.
At last he got up from the sofa on which he had been lying, went over to it, and having unlocked it, touched some hidden spring.
He was sitting on a sofa beside her, talking and drinking a well-concocted cup of tea, when a picture on the opposite wall attracted his attention.
Instead of rushing out, he dropped on the sofa and looked at the carpet over his locked hands.
Odd fetched the ice and sat down beside her on a small sofa in a corner of the ballroom.
The model on the sofa stretched her arms and yawned a long, scraping yawn.
She dropped upon the sofa and hid her face in her hands, adding brokenly: "And how can you be so cruel?
Even Mrs. Archinard rose from her sofa on more than one occasion to sit plaintively beside her daughter's bed; and it was from her that Hilda learned that they were going back to Allersley.
A red-haired woman was lying on a sofa in a far, dim corner, a vase of white flowers at her head.
Mrs. Archinard was extended on the sofa in the drawing-room when they reached the Rue Pierre Charron.
She lent it to Miss Leslie, who saw a large square, old-fashioned red sofa covered with muslin, which she found in the next country-house she visited.
She held out her hand, and turning her head aside, made room for me on the sofa beside her.
He seized my sofa blanket, and flung it over the table while I stood helpless.
When most of the Subalterns sat upon him with sofa cushions to find out why he had not said that acting was his strong point, he answered very quietly: "I don't think you ever asked me.
As the ornament of a chandelier, over the sofa on which the hymeneal pair are seated, is a relievo of Medusa's head; both this and other agreeable subjects may possibly have some covert allusions, but to me they are not obvious.
The Duca della Spina smiled rather feebly as he took the outstretched hand, and slowly sat down upon the sofa beside Matilde.
Matilde Macomer sat, leaning back, upon a little sofa which stood across a corner of the room far from the fire.
Veronica was surprised at the ease and simplicity with which matters were arranged, and in a few seconds she found herself sitting beside Gianluca, on a narrow sofa at some distance from Bianca and Ghisleri.
For some nights I have slept on the sofa in the dressing-room.
After her mistress had gone to bed in the inner chamber, the woman used to lock the outer door softly and then draw a short, light sofa across it; on this she lay as best she might.
If you will allow me to sleep on thesofa until the weather is fine again.
Here Effie went suddenly on her knees by the sofa and threw one young arm protectingly round her mother.
Mrs. Himes sat on one end of a black hair-covered sofa in the parlor, and Doctor Wicker sat on a black hair-covered chair opposite to her and not far away.
Five minutes later Marietta Himes was sitting on the horsehair sofa in the parlor, with Mr. Rooper on the horsehair chair opposite to her, and not very far away, and he was delivering the address which he had prepared.
Something dark had risen from the sofain the far corner.
Bitterly tired, he lay down on the sofa in his fur coat and fell asleep.
Nothing if not morally courageous, June walked straight up to her former friend, kissed her cheek, and the two settled down on a sofa never sat on since the hotel's foundation.
Aunt Juley recalled how he had gone to sleep on the sofa one day, where James was sitting.
It was hot too, and after dressing for dinner he lay down on the sofa in his bedroom to rest a little.
Coffee was swallowed, her little travelling-bag and bonnet on the sofa all ready.
I take it for granted that will be the end of it," said Mrs. Evelyn, pinching her sofa cushion in a great many successive places, with a most composed and satisfied air.
She resolved to bring the power of her sunbeam to bear, and, going round, seated herself on the sofa close by him, and laid her hand on his arm.
It was in vain to try to eat or to drink; and Fleda returned to her sofa with even an increased appetite for rest, the more that her head began to take its revenge for the trials to which it had been put the past day and night.
The door of the room occupied by the Vignerons was wide open, and little Gustave could be seen lying on the sofa which served as his bed.
She sat herself down to wait on the sofa and tried to calm her foolish agitation, avoiding all heartsearchings and endeavouring to fix her attention on external objects.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sofa" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
